Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor for massacre

[Anonymous]

What next? Award medals to the perpetrators of the My Lai massacre?

https://apnews.com/article/wounded-knee-hegseth-soldiers-medal-of-honor-0310c47952ad7aeabb176f94d8af4d52

Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards in a video posted to social media Thursday evening.

Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, ordered the review of the awards in 2024 after a Congressional recommendation in the 2022 defense bill — itself a reflection of efforts by some lawmakers to rescind the awards for those who participated in the bloody massacre on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Wounded Knee Creek.

While the events of that day are sometimes described as a battle, historical records show that the U.S. Army, which was in the midst of amid a campaign to repress the tribes in the area, killed an estimated 250 Native Americans, including women and children, of the Lakota Sioux tribe, while attempting to disarm Native American fighters who had already surrendered at their camp.
https://apnews.com/articl...94d8af4d52

[Anonymous]

I was kinda expecting him to give those medals to Confederate soldiers instead.

[Anonymous]

Nothing more MAGA than slaughtering Native Americans and getting an award for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing more MAGA than slaughtering Native Americans and getting an award for it.

How about slaughtering between 300-500 Vietnamese civilians, including women and children and elderly people, at My Lai? Perhaps next Hegseth will honor those brave US soldiers.

[Anonymous]

The cruelty is the point.

[Anonymous]

Next they will give posthumous Medals of Honor to war criminals like Heinrich Himmler, Hideki Tojo, Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Ratko Mladic...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next they will give posthumous Medals of Honor to war criminals like Heinrich Himmler, Hideki Tojo, Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Ratko Mladic...

I wouldn't put anything past this administration, but there has to be somebody who knows it's not a good idea to make Trump attempt to pronounce those names with the cameras rolling.